In a painting, you should be able to discover new things each time you look at it. But you can look at a painting for a whole week and then never think about it again. You can also look at a painting for a second and think about it for the rest of your life.

For me, a painting must give off sparks. It must dazzle like the beauty of a woman or a poem. It must radiate like the flints that shepherds in the Pyrenees use for lighting their pipes.